World Cup 2018: 5 Major Takeaways from the Group Stage

#3 To VAR or not to VAR

You may like it or hate it, but there is nothing you can do about it

24 penalties have been awarded in this World Cup and we have only just completed the group stages. That's already a new record. One can only wonder what the total number will be by the end of the tournament.

But then again, VAR has been useful, you cannot deny that, barring a few incidents. See, one cannot blame VAR for wrong decisions. At the end of the day, it is a technology and it the referees who use it and come to a decision. Human error is always bound to be there.

World Cup VAR decisions.95% correct without VAR 99.3% correct with VARDecisions checked by VAR, 335.That 4.3% difference? Could be your team winning the league or not, a trophy or not, relegated or not.No brainer. VAR is working 👍🏽

— Stanley Victor Collymore (@StanCollymore) June 29, 2018

99.3% of the decisions in the group stages have been correct. That's a pretty impressive record. But yes, there is a scope of improvement; which challenges should be reviewed and the time taken to make the decision should be reduced. It can only get better.